Why don’t you start local community?

2011.10.01 Zabbix Conference 2011 @ RigaKodai Terashima

Twitter : @kodai74

Who am I ?

• Kodai Terashima

• Representative of Japanese Zabbix Community

• Developer of Mozaby (Zabbix app for iPhone)

• Emproyee of Zabbix SIA since April, 2011

Today’s Talk

• History of Zabbix in Japan & Japanese Community

• What’s is the important things for Local Community

• Let’s start Local Community!

Around 2005...

I was...

• working for Japanese Company.

• searching “Free monitoring software” for a customer.

OSS Monitoring Software

• Nagios & BigBrother were famous in Japan

• Zabbix 1.1 alpha released!

• Zabbix information in Japanese was “0” on Google search

First Zabbix commercial user in Japan

• I compared Zabbix, Nagios, and BigBrother

• I believed Zabbix has a great potential!

• I suggested Zabbix, my customer chose Zabbix!

• I installed and implemented Zabbix monitoring system into the customer environment

v.s. v.s.

Creating Zabbix Community

• Create un-o!cial ZABBIX-JP site in August 2005

• Un-o!cial local community site

• Translate frontend into Japanese

http://www.zabbix.jp

what’s happened?Google Analytics / Visitors

2005.08Start ZABBIX-JP site

what’s happened?Google Analytics / Visitors

2006.07ZABBIX-JP site was

introduced on Gigazine

what’s happened?Google Analytics / Visitors

2006.12 - 2007.09I wrote 2 Zabbix articles

on ThinkIT site

what’s happened?Google Analytics / Visitors

2008.03 - 12I wrote 9 Zabbix articles

on Magazine

what’s happened?Google Analytics / Visitors

2010.04Japanese Zabbix book

was published

what’s happened?Google Analytics / Visitors

2011.04I moved to Riga

from Japan!

what’s happened?Google Analytics / Visitors

2011.04I moved to Riga

from Japan!

OSS event activity in Japan

• Our event activity

• Join Open Source Conference at Tokyo and Kyoto

• Hold Zabbix study meeting every 3 - 6 months

• 50 - 100 listeners attend our presentation at every event

Today’s Zabbix in Japan

• Zabbix community:

• 6 active sta!

• over 1000 visitors every day on community site!

• Zabbix in Japan:

• 582,000 result of Google search in Japanese!

• De-facto standard OSS monitoring software!

Zabbix event photos in Japan

Zabbix event photos in Japan

Zabbix event photos in Japan

Zabbix event photos in Japan

Zabbix event photos in Japan

Important things for Local Community

• Local Language

• Talk and introduce Zabbix in local language

• Local Friends

• Find and meet “Zabbix friends” in local language

• Local Communication

• Gather and meet at local community events

Where will we go?

• ZABBIX-JP community want to join zabbix.org

• Do the community work together

• Reduce management cost of ZABBIX-JP site

• Un-o!cial to O!cial

zabbix.org

• Media Wiki

• Documents, how-tos and technical information

• Pootle

• Translation tool for frontend

• Community svn

• Repository for 3rd party community software

http://www.zabbix.org

start local community

• Transaltion

• Zabbix has 18 languages for frontend

• http://www.zabbix.com/documentation

• Advertise Zabbix in Local Language

• Blogs, articles in medias, OSS events ...

Pootle / Zabbix 2.0 frontend

Why don’t you start local community?

• I believe OSS community power!

• Please contact us! We can help you start local community

• twitter: @zabbix

• IRC: freenode #zabbix

Question?